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1 posted on 07/14/2012 7:32:36 AM PDT by grundle
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The United States is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to annual spending per student on its public schools.

That's underfunded, we should NOT be tied with anyone!

2 posted on 07/14/2012 7:35:18 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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A good teacher could teach in a barn with the materials she found there.


3 posted on 07/14/2012 7:40:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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I remember Pat Buchannan debating someone about money spent on education. Buchannan showed the amounts spent per pupil in Washington D.C. in around 1950.

Then he showed how much at the current time and adjusted them for inflation. The difference was astounding. Also the quality of the schools went from great to horrible.


4 posted on 07/14/2012 7:41:19 AM PDT by yarddog
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"The United States is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to annual spending per student..."

I really doubt that, but I'm willing to bet we far and away lead the world in "annual spending per school administrator."

5 posted on 07/14/2012 7:45:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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That great sucking sound is your tax dollars leaving your wallet for the coffers of a public employees union and their minions......crush the unions and bring accountability back to the education workforce, our future generations deserve no less!


7 posted on 07/14/2012 8:35:51 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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For those who wonder what's wrong with American public education, here's a clue:

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

8 posted on 07/14/2012 9:08:57 AM PDT by Maceman
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People who say U.S. public schools are “underfunded” have no idea what they are talking about.

its not about teaching the children, its about keeping the liberal agenda and the unions well oiled.

10 posted on 07/14/2012 9:50:26 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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Quick and dirty test a few years past showed a significant negative correlation between money spent per pupil on education and achievement test scores in various countries (Korea had the highest scores per one of the lowest amounts spent if I remember correctly) - just sayin’......


11 posted on 07/14/2012 10:03:24 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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